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Reference Base  Man and beast in Eastern Ethiopia: from observations made... |
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Man and beast in Eastern Ethiopia: from observations made in British East Africa, Uganda, and the Sudan |
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Bland-Sutton, J. |
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1911 |
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London, MacMillan and Co |
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pp. i-xii, 1-419 |
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Morphology - Horn
All Rhino Species
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| The horns of the rhinoceros, as its name specifies, grow on its nose : they contain no bony core, yet that portion of the nasal bone which underlies the horns of these huge and ugly beasts has a bony projection, but it does not enter into the composition of the horn, for this part of the rhinocer... |
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| There is one use the rhinoceros has for its horn, and that is probably peculiar to it. After dropping its dung the animal turns round and charges the heap with its horn and wrathfully tosses the dung about; sometimes ploughing up deep holes in the ground with the nose and horn during this weird ... |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Value - Related to Horn
African Rhino Species
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| In the south-west of Kordofan the natives have a tradition that anyone who drinks out of a cup made from a rhinoceros horn never gets sick. |
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| Rhinoceros horn is used for making handles for walking sticks and umbrellas, it is easily cut with a knife and if a fragment be soaked in weak caustic alkali solution it will soften and flake in the same way that our finger nails and patches of hard skin soften under the influences of soap and wa... |
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Africa - Eastern Africa
Morphology - Horn
Black Rhino
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| Sir John Willoughby shot a rhinoceros in East Africa (1889) with three horns in a row, one behind the other. The skin with the horns on it was shown at a meeting of the Zoological Society, London. |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
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| The long front horn of the rhinoceros is sometimes fashioned into sticks to beat cattle and goats, and occasionally it is made into clubs for Masai orators and councillors. |
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Morphology - Size
Black Rhino
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| Of the two horns the front one, that nearest the animal's snout is usually the longer, it rarely exceeds a foot in length, but some examples have measured as much as forty inches. |
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